{"id":41217,"date":"2014-08-26T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41217"},"modified":"2014-08-26T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:52:38","slug":"from-macys-to-ferguson-the-spectrum-of-american-racism-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/08\/26\/from-macys-to-ferguson-the-spectrum-of-american-racism-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From Macy\u2019s to Ferguson: The Spectrum of American Racism \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140826Uprising\/2014_08_26_racism.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Jody Armour <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140826Uprising\/2014_08_26_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/jody_armour.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Michael Brown&#8217;s funeral in Missouri yesterday drew thousands of people at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. One of Brown&#8217;s cousins, Eric Davis, was among those who spoke at the funeral, saying the community had had, &#8220;enough of the senseless killings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a newly obtained audio recording of the Ferguson shooting of Brown by Officer Darren Wilson found &#8220;a quick series of shots\u2026 followed by a pause and then another quick succession of shots.&#8221; An attorney for the anonymous person who recorded the shots said, &#8220;I was very concerned about that pause &#8230; because it&#8217;s not just the number of gunshots, it&#8217;s how they&#8217;re fired\u2026And that has a huge relevance on how this case might finally end up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ferguson has become a turning point for a discussion of race and the policing of African Americans in the US. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America. He is also a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute\u2019s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/08\/25\/from-macys-to-ferguson-the-spectrum-of-american-racism-part-1\/\">Click here<\/a> to listen to part 1 of the conversation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Brown&#8217;s funeral in Missouri yesterday drew thousands of people at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. One of Brown&#8217;s cousins, Eric Davis, was among those who spoke at the funeral, saying the community had had, &#8220;enough of the senseless killings.&#8221; Meanwhile a newly obtained audio recording of the Ferguson shooting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41219,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41217\/revisions\/41219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}